By mail – A voter may vote early by mail if he:
will be unavoidably absent from his county or, if a resident of the city of
New York absent from said city, on Election Day; will be unable to appear at
the polls due to illness or disability; is a patient in a Veterans’
Administration Hospital; is detained in jail awaiting Grand Jury action or
confined in prison after conviction for an offense other than a felony

Applications for absentee/vote-by-mail ballots
must be received no later than June 17, 2014 for the State Primary and
October 28, 2014 for the General Election. Absentee/vote-by-mail ballots
must be postmarked no later than the day before the election or delivered in
person to the Board of Elections by Election Day.